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4 days ago · Welcome to Rotten Tomatoes’ list of the 100 best-reviewed Western movies of all time, sorted by Adjusted Tomatometer with at least 20 reviews for each selection. Additionally, we...
- The Salvation
After shooting the man who murdered his wife, a Danish...
- The Keeping Room
During the waning days of the Civil War, two Southern...
- The Proposition
In 1880s Australia, a lawman (Ray Winstone) offers renegade...
- The Salvation
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - Director: John Huston. - Metascore: 98. - Runtime: 126 minutes. Two penniless Americans—Fred Dobbs, played by Humphrey Bogart, and Bob Curtin, played by Tim Holt, go on a gold-prospecting trip, joined by an older prospector named Howard.
- The Wild Bunch (1969) - Director: Sam Peckinpah. - Metascore: 97. - Runtime: 135 minutes. William Holden and Ernest Borgnine play members of a gang heading to Mexico to do one final heist as the traditional America West is dying around them in the early 20th century.
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - Director: John Ford. - Metascore: 94. - Runtime: 123 minutes. When U.S. Senator Ranse Stoddard returns to the West to attend a funeral, he is forced to rehash his past, including the truth regarding the killing of an infamous outlaw.
- The Searchers (1956) - Director: John Ford. - Metascore: 94. - Runtime: 119 minutes. John Wayne plays a Confederate Army veteran tracking down Comanche Indians who massacred his family, burned their ranch and kidnapped his young niece.
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- 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' (1948) Director: John Huston. It's a big call considering he also made The Maltese Falcon, but the 1948 Western adventure film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre could be John Huston's greatest picture.
- 'For a Few Dollars More' (1965) Director: Sergio Leone. The second film of Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy, For a Few Dollars More sees Clint Eastwood reprising his role as the poncho-wearing Man with No Name, while Lee Van Cleef entered the fray as his unlikely ally.
- 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' (1962) Director: John Ford. The notion of Western heroes and quick-drawing cowboys has become something of a modern American myth.
- 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1969) Director: George Roy Hill. One of the best aspects of the Western genre is the interesting and complex characters it creates, whether they are fictional or, in the case of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, mythicized versions of actual people.
- 'The Train Robbers'
- 'Appaloosa'
- 'The Long Riders'
- 'The Electric Horseman'
- 'Lone Wolf McQuade'
- 'Bomb City'
- 'Hostiles'
- 'El Topo'
- 'A Fistful of Dollars'
- 'Never Grow old'
- Director: Burt Kennedy - Metascore: 64 - Runtime: 92 minutes John Wayne plays a Union Army veteran who signs on to help a train robber's widow, played by Ann-Margret, find a stash of gold hidden by her late husband. Director Burt Kennedy also wrote the movie, which is action-filled with an unexpected ending.
- Director: Ed Harris - Metascore: 64 - Runtime: 115 minutes When a rancher terrorizes a small town in New Mexico, two lawmen, played by Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris, are hired to straighten things out. Harris not only stars in Appaloosa, but also co-wrote, directed, and produced it. The story is based on a novel of the same name written by Robert...
- Director: Walter Hill - Metascore: 64 - Runtime: 100 minutes The Long Ridersfollows a fictionalized depiction of Jesse James' bank-robbing escapades. Notably, four real-life sets of brothers were cast to play four sets of brothers, including James Keach and Stacy Keach, who played Jesse James and Frank James respectively. The Keach brothers also ...
- Director: Sydney Pollack - Metascore: 64 - Runtime: 121 minutes Robert Redford plays a washed-up rodeo star who is hired as a spokesperson for a cereal company. He feels like such a sellout that he steals the company's horse and runs away, soon followed by reporter Hallie Martin, played by Jane Fonda. Country music star Willie Nelson had a role i...
- Director: Steve Carver - Metascore: 65 - Runtime: 107 minutes In this action Western, a Texas Ranger seeks revenge on the man who hijacked a U.S. Army convoy, injuring his daughter and killing her boyfriend. Chuck Norris stars in the film, which served as the basis for his later television series titled Walker, Texas Ranger.
- Director: Jameson Brooks - Metascore: 65 - Runtime: 95 minutes Bomb City is based on true events surrounding the death of 19-year-old Brian Deneke. In 1997, Deneke was murderedwhen 17-year-old Dustin Camp intentionally hit him with his car. The film depicts the hit-and-run, the resulting court case, and the perception of the punk rock community i...
- Director: Scott Cooper - Metascore: 65 - Runtime: 134 minutes Christian Bale plays an Army captain tasked with escorting a Cheyenne chief, played by Wes Studi, back to his home in Montana. The National Congress of American Indians praisedHostilesfor representing Native Americans well, and using Native American languages appropriately.
- Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky - Metascore: 65 - Runtime: 125 minutes The surreal El Topo follows the quest of a mystical man clad in black, traveling on horseback through the Mexican desert with a naked child. El Topo means the mole, which the movie says will go blind seeing the sun after a life digging tunnels underground. With Alejandro Jodoro...
- Director: Sergio Leone - Metascore: 65 - Runtime: 99 minutes Clint Eastwood had his first leading role playing the Man With No Name, who gets involved in an argument between three brothers and a sheriff. A Fistful of Dollars is the first film of the spaghetti Western Dollars Trilogy, all directed by Sergio Leone.
- Director: Ivan Kavanagh - Metascore: 65 - Runtime: 100 minutes A small Western town is disrupted by the arrival of an outlaw, played by John Cusack, who opens a salon and a brothel. Emile Hirsch plays an Irish immigrant and the town's undertaker, whose life changes with the villain's arrival. Bleak and grim, the filmwas shot in Ireland and direct...
Welcome to Rotten Tomatoes’ list of the 75 best-reviewed Western movies of all time, sorted by Adjusted Tomatometer with at least 20 reviews for each selection. Additionally, we picked only classical period films, so you get outta here with that Best Picture-winning neo-Western nonsense!
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- ‘The Great Train Robbery’ (1903) In one of the earliest Westerns in American cinema, the film depicts a group of outlaws who rob passengers on a train and threaten the operator.
- ‘Stagecoach’ (1939) The two-time Oscar winning film, directed by John Ford, follows a collective group of passengers aboard a stagecoach, including a drunken doctor, two women, a bank manager who stole his client’s money and escaped outlaw Ringo Kid.
- ‘Red River’ (1948) After working 14 years to build his cattle ranch in Texas, Tom Dunston (John Wayne) is ready to drive them to the market, which is in Missouri.
- ‘Winchester ’73’ (1950) Lin McAdam (James Stewart) finds himself chasing after a rifle that he won in a contest, but was stolen by the runner-up, Dutch Henry Brown (Stephen McNally).
1. Unforgiven. 1992 2h 10m R. 8.2 (437K) Rate. 85 Metascore. Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid." Director Clint Eastwood Stars Clint Eastwood Gene Hackman Morgan Freeman. 2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. 1966 2h 58m R.
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